On the night of January 10, 1929, three bullets killed Julio Mella, the young head of the Cuban Communist Party in exile, while he was walking with his lover, Tina Modotti, on a street in Mexico City. Tina Modotti, implicated in his death, was released after five days of interrogation, as no decision was rendered in her case. A month later, she moved in with Vittorio Vidali, the probable assassin of Mella and later the assassin of hundreds of socialists, anarchists, and syndicalists in Spain. Tina lived with Vidali, always in fear, for 20 years, dying of a “heart attack” in a taxi in Mexico City.